Market Reactions and Strategic Moves: Insights from Truth Social to Banking

Shares in Donald Trump’s social media business soared following its New York market debut, and Visa and Mastercard have agreed to cut their US transaction fees. Plus, UBS needs to boost its wealth business to make its Credit Suisse acquisition a success. 

Mentioned in this podcast: 

Donald Trump has $4.6bn stake in social media group after market debut

Visa and Mastercard agree $30bn settlement over US transaction fees

Can UBS become Europe’s Morgan Stanley?

In German groceries, even computers have to obey century-old ban on Sunday work

The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Zach St. Louis, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.

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